The web is transforming payments
To help ensure that the Web evolves to meet new industry needs, we’re convening e-commerce companies, payment service providers, card networks, banks, browser vendors, and others to shape the way Web Payments and E-commerce are developed.
§ Our community is focusing on
- Reducing cart abandonment rates.
- Streamlining authentication and reducing fraud.
- Fostering digital payment method innovation.
- The impact of emerging regulations on Web architecture and capabilities.
- Harmonization with other standards efforts such as FIDO and EMVCo.
- Focusing on deliverable APIs to increase the convenience and security of Web Payments.
- Increasing security across the field of payments on the web.
- Gathering voices to guide the next phase of payments on the web.
Active groups
These groups work to create and implement software and APIs to make web payments easier and more secure, or provide a forum for discussion and implementation of new standards, and also allow Members to discover and fix gaps in interoperability of W3C’s standards and APIs.
Web AuthenticationWorking group
Web PaymentsWorking group
Web Payment SecurityInterest group
Anti-FraudCommunity group
§ Why join?
Since 1994, we have been leading the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth of the web.
By joining these groups, you have the ability to discuss and drive the standards produced by W3C. The conversations occurring in the groups concern both current and future standards, constantly aiming to make the web a better place. You have the ability to take part in guiding the future of the web.
Our values revolve around building the web for all
The social value of the web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.
Recent activities in the E-commerce and Web Payments community
Find out more via recent stories, news, workshops, talks or events.
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W3C advances technology to streamline payment authentication
Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC), published as W3C Candidate Recommendation, is feature-complete and ready for further implementations.
Press release
W3C Members
73 member organizations are involved in the e-commerce ecosystem, including:
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